Southport mum Jo Snow busy this panto season!

JO STAFFORD couldn’t be doing two more different jobs this festive season.

When the 30-year-old mother of twins isn’t donning that iconic blue and yellow dress to play Snow White at Southport Arts Centre, she’s a hard-working member of Sefton’s Youth Offending Team.

She manages to slip from one role to another seamlessly.

The former Meols Cop student explained: “I have been part of All Souls Dramatic Club for three years now, and I studied performing arts at Southport College as well.

“As it was the lead role, I had to audition, singing songs from the show, and as I worked my way through, acting out parts of the script as well.

“It’s really exciting. I had a character part last year, then I was in the chorus the year before that, and this year I’ve got the lead role.

“You do feel very responsible in a role like this, and luckily, I’m a very organised person, so playing this part, working and getting Christmas organised hasn’t been too much of a problem.”

As part of her leading lady responsibilities, Jo appeared in character at Waterstone’s in Lord Street earlier this month to read the story of Snow White to a group of children, and even accompanied Father Christmas on a visit to Hesketh Golf Club.

Jo continued: “All the cast are brilliant, and Stefanie Verite is very scary as the Wicked Queen.

“We have seven children playing the dwarfs and they’re lovely, although I only met them all for the first time last week!”

Helping out backstage on the production are some of the young people Jo encounters through her day job who are repaying their debt to society, making this particular pantomime a real community production.

Jo, mum of Evie and Fern, four, added: “We do have some similarities with the Disney production, in that we sing Hi Ho and a song called I’m Wishing.

“I never thought I’d have played Snow White when I was younger, but it helps having two girls!”

All Souls’ production of Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs is at Southport Arts Centre on selected dates from Friday, January 11, to Saturday, January 26. Tickets are priced £7.50 for adults and £6.25 for children.